Project Manager

Your New role

Are you an experienced Project Manager looking for your next challenge?

Looking for a role where you can use your sound negotiating and commercial skills?

Then National Highways have the role for you

We’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team in Yorkshire North East. Within this role, you will support the management of our national PFI contracts, managing the performance of an integrated project team, external contractors and/or consultants,to ensure successful delivery of agreed project outcomes.

What you’ll be leading on
- Manages Health and Safety across the project and holds suppliers to account for their performance.
- Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Programme Manager, Senior Project Manager and other key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the projects’ strategic and delivery objectives, to reporton and review project performance, and to agree solutions that resolve complex issues.
- Design, agree and implement project plans, to ensure that all activities are appropriately organised to deliver project objectives, are appropriately resourced to deliver the required outcomes, and comply with locally defined procedures.
- Design and agree key project milestones, scope acceptable risks and priorities, ensuring that appropriate governance is in place to achieve successful delivery.
- Oversee feasibility for proposed projects, to inform the development of business cases and investment proposals.
- Contribute to the development of robust business cases, to clarify business benefits, quantify resource requirements and identify project interdependencies.
- Identify and evaluate emerging risks, issues, dependencies and constraints associated with the project, escalating where appropriate. Where necessary develop, agree and implement solutions to overcome these.
- Ensure effective performance through contract management.

To be Successful
- Evidence of managing teams to successful development of complex, medium risk projects or high-profile projects
- Evidence of managing complex relationships with multiple stakeholders and evidence of skills to influence relationships for positive outcomes
- Demonstrable experience of taking projects through governance processes and engaging with organisational senior leadership to achieve approvals.
- Demonstrable experience of managing the development of project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with delivery partners.
- Evidence of commercial skills with proven ability to negotiate and manage contracts to deliver outcomes and drive value for money
- Professional accreditation: Full Member of APM (MAPM) or appropriate professional body for their specialist field or a willingness and commitment to attain.
- Experience of contract management.

**About Us**

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to dobetter and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package
- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are
- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
- Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort
- Right to work check
- 3 year employment history references
- DBS criminal record check
- Social media and adverse journalism check
- Driving licence check (if applicable)
- Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)

And finally

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